THE RAREST OF THE RARE KIND OF LEADERS WE HAVE IN THE COUNTRY, WHO HAD DONATED EVERY YEAR ALL THE GIFTS HE HAD RECEIVED IN THE LAST TEN YEARS IN POWER FOR GIRL CHILD EDUCATION FUND; GIFTS WORTH OVER 18.9 CRORES. WE SURELY NEED A LEADER LIKE HIM TO LEAD THE COUNTRY AFTER APRIL 2014. READ THE NEWS ITEM IN ENGLISH: Gandhinagar, Wednesday: Gujarat Chief Minister Narenda Modi today donated 3,064 gifts worth approximately Rs.26.54-lakh to the government treasury. The gifts included 103 gold and silver artifacts, roughly valued at Rs.14.81-lakh, besides artifacts like chariot, watches, mementoes, coins, medals, metal and wooden handicrafts, photo frames, swords, bow and arrows, traditional and tribal attires, umbrellas. The date and venue of the auction of these gifts would be announced shortly. This happens to be his 13thinstallment of gifts Mr. Modi has been regularly donating to the treasury since November 2001. He has earlier donated Rs.18.91-crore in the government treasury, the amount raised through auction of 15,464 gifts he had received between November 2001 and December 2013. This totals up to 18,710 gifts so far. The auctions are held at different places in Gujarat by rotation, as in Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar,Surat, Mehsana,Rajkot, Valsad, Vapi,Bhavnagar, Bharuch and Anand. Incidentally, Mr. Modi happens to be the only Chief Minister in India who has been regularly donating the gifts he had been receiving for some noble cause. The sum thus raised in donated to the fund for girls’ education, called Kanya Kelavni Nidhi. This include 3,064 gifts worth Rs.14.81-lakh in the latest installment today. Narendra Modi deposits the gifts he has received in the last year towards girl child education
Posted on: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 11:59:24 +0000